Word: faction
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turn brought Chairman Roosevelt around to a qualified endorsement of Harry Truman "to date" and a full endorsement of the Truman foreign policy. He even pulled the left-wing Wallace-for-President faction around with him. When the committee resolved unanimously that Jimmy should be congratulated for "bringing together all segments of the Democratic Party . . . under his continued leadership," Jimmy's road became smooth. California's Wallace boom faltered. The party's 1948 chances in California were a lot brighter...
When nominations began, Murray learned that both the Eubanks faction and the leftist "independent-progressive" wings were stronger than he. For Murray's office, the Eubanks crowd put up 38-year-old Harry Martin, amusement editor of the Memphis Commercial Appeal. Leftists entered 41-year-old Willard Shelton, onetime editor of the Christian Evangelist, now a Washington correspondent for Manhattan...
Originally a preacher for the Disciples of Christ, a Middle Western faction, he later associated himself with Huey Long. Father Charles E. Coughlin, and Charles A. Lindbergh in an effort to "maintain a government... which abuses no minority and is abused by no minority...
...labor unions was firmer than ever before -and through them they had a grip on France's entire economy. It was doubtful whether brave little Ramadier's centrist Government could run the country against Communist opposition. Inside Ramadier's own Socialist Party, a large faction, still bitterly opposed to the break with the Communists, might force Ramadier's resignation. Worried Frenchmen saw two alternatives: 1) the Communists would triumphantly return to the Government, stronger than ever; 2) they would adopt a policy of increasingly violent opposition, precipitating strikes, strife and bloodshed...
...C.T.C. at its annual convention had sped Lombardo from his Mexico City home to Havana. He had hardly settled into his $24-a-day room in the swank Hotel Sevilla-Biltmore when he discovered how right those reports were. Waiters belonging to the Auténtico faction refused to serve him (but servants who followed their union's Communist leaders loyally made his bed). As the 2,000 pistol-packing, trigger-happy delegates (both Auténticos and Communists) jockeyed to get their credentials certified, pistols popped. One Auténtico was killed, one wounded. Later, two auto loads...